Oscar Wilde - Le Prince Heureux et autres contes / The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Une statue dorée qui pleure à chaudes larmes, un jeune homme à la recherche d'une rose rouge pour séduire celle qu'il aime, un géant qui ne veut pas que les enfants jouent dans le jardin...
Pour les petits et les grands, cinq contes pleins de malice et de fantaisie pour découvrir tout le talent d'Oscar Wilde.

ISBN: 978-2-07-035776-5

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!

ISBN: 0-14-131190-8

Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha

"Captivating, minutely imaginated... a novel that refuses to stay shut."
Newsweek

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.

"Part historical novel, part fairy tale... Memoirs of a Geisha immerses the reader in an exotic world. An impressive and unusual debut."
The New York Times

"Enthralling... draws the reader in from the very first page."
USA Today

ISBN: 0-307-27516-7

James M. Barrie - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

This is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old Caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island in the middle of the Serpentine, the lake which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park...
Peter's adventures, and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat, are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

ISBN: 1-85326-156-4

Jean de La Fontaine - The Fables of La Fontaine

Marianne Moore's tranlation of Jean de la Fontaine's delightful and instructive Fables appeared in 1954, the product of eight years of painstaking work. Based on the standard French text, her version contains all twelve books and all two hundred and forty-one of the separate poems, each translated in her scrupulous style, with her keen eye for the behavior of animals (and people) and her special ability to "present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Miss Moore has made extensive revisions in the tranlation for this new edition.

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

The landmark inquiry into women's role in society, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is the political account of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister. A sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, Virginia Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create.

"Woolf speaks with as much fancy as logic, as much wit as knowledge, and with the imagination of a true novelist."
The New York Times

ISBN: 0-15-678733-4

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at his trial at the Old Bailey in 1895.

This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novel's immorality, and the introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition by Peter Ackroyd.

ISBN: 978-0-14-143957-0

Sylvie Simmons - Serge Gainsbourg A fistful of Gitanes

The first full biography in English of the priapic pop genius who had "the nerve, and the chops, to make great art out of bad taste" (NEW YORK TIMES)

Singer, songwriter, filmmaker, poet, provocateur. Little more than a decade after his death in 1991, Serge Gainsbourg -once known mostly for his heavy-breathing hit "Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus"- has emerged as "his nation's most beloved pop export since Piaf" (New York Times). His musical output encompassed a staggering variety of transformations: classical, chanson, jazz, baby pop, rock, reggae, disco, and hip-hop. His lyrics were mind-boggling exercises in Franglais triple-entendres. And his personal life was marked by a singular dedication to cigarettes, alcohol, and seduction.

In this, the first biography to capture Gainsbourg in all his contradiction and gleeful outrageousness, Sylvie Simmons tells the fascinating story of the Gallic star. Drawing on hours of new interviews with his intimates -among them Jane Birkin, Sly & Robbie, Marianne Faithfull, and Philippe Lerichomme- Simmons describes in crackling prose the scope of Gainsbourg's achievement and also gives a memorable picture of his complicated emotional life. Simmons's work will stand as the definitive take on a dizzying genius.

"Documenting, explaining, contextualizing (and to her credit never quite apologizing for) her notoriously lewd and perpetually unshaven subject, [Simmons's is] a fascinating tale of a complex man whose music endures and legend still grows." Time Out (U.K.)

ISBN: 0-306-81183-9

Cristina García - Dreaming in Cuban

ISBN: 0-345-38143-2

Sigmund Freud - An Outline of Pyscho-Analysis

In June 1938, at eighty-two, Freud began writing this terse survey of the fundamentals of psychoanalysis. He marshals here the whole range of psychoanalytic theory and therapy in lucid prose and continues his open-mindedness to new departures, such as the potential of drug therapy. While the book remained unfinished, it covers the essentials of psychoanalysis.

ISBN: 0-393-00151-2

Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published in 1792 and was received with a mixture of outrage and enthusiasm.

In an age of ferment, following the American and French Revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for emancipation and an attack on a social and economic system. As Miriam Brody points out in her introduction, subsequent feminists tended to lose sight of her radical objectives. For Mary Wollstonecraft all aspects of women's existence were interrelated, and any effective reform depended on a redistribution of political and economic power. Walpole once called her "a hyena in petticoats", but it is a tribute to her forceful insight that modern feminists are finally returning to the arguments so passionately expressed in this remarkable book.

ISBN: 0-14-043199-3

Claude Lanzmann - Shoah

Here is the complete text of Claude Lanzmann's film, whose publication will coincide with the American release, following the successful launching in Paris. With all that has been written about the Holocaust, Shoah is an extraordinary achievement. The result of years of research, the nine-and-a-half-hour film is an oral history of the Holocaust that brings together a full range of witnesses: the SS officers who served in the death camps; the Polish villagers who tilled their fields within yards of the crematoriums; the Germans who resettled occupied Poland, moving into the houses whose Jewish owners had been sent to their death; the state employee who sold Jews half-fare excursion tickets to the camps -one way; Western scholars of the Holocaust. And then there are the survivors themselves: a Polish barber who cut the hait of women he knew were to die in the next few minutes; a thirteen-year-old boy who was to work in the death camp's "special squad"; the Pole who was taken into the Warsaw ghetto so that he could report to the outside world what her had seen; a woman who lived in hiding in Berlin for most of the war, in anguish at the fate of her people and her own escape from it.
The film shows no archival footage, and it is through the words themselves that the imagination recreates the world described in these words -a way of getting at the truth that is far more shocking than the depiction of actual images. Shoah is unforgettable, and it is destined to become a landmark of film and history.

"Shoah is not an easy film to talk about. There is a magic in this film that defies explanation. After the war, we read masses of accounts of the ghettos and the extermination camps, and we were devastated. But when we see today Claude Lanzmann's extraordinary film, we realize we have understood nothing. In spite of everything we knew, the ghastly experience remained remote from us. Now, for the first time, we live it in our minds, and hearts and flesh. It becomes our experience." Simone de Beauvoir, from the Preface

"Shoah is not just one more film about the Holocaust. Its goal is unique, selective and single-minded: to describe in ruthless detail the inhuman bureaucratic machinery of the Final Solution during the years 1942-1944... There is an unforgettably sinister beauty to the footage Lanzmann took in Poland, and there is art in the way he has edited it... like refrains in a terrifying epic poem." Variety

ISBN: 0-394-55142-7

Emilio Bejel - The Write Way Home

The Write Way Home: A Cuban-American Story, a poetic tale of self-discovery, is the autobiography of Emilio Bejel, a prominent Cuban-American poet and literary critic. Employing a unique blend of poetry, prose, and documentary sources, it recounts his life from childhood in pre-revolutionary Cuba to later experiences as an exile over the span of three decades in the United States. Memory and imagination commingle to depict the moments, places, and people that have marked his life. His text stands out due to its unique perspective, that of a gay Cuban-American writer whose politics simply don't fit neatly into the mainstream exile community's world view.

ISBN: 1-58018-067-1